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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184200 | Picture rate conversion system for high definition video Systems and methods for converting a picture frame rate between a source video at a first rate and a target video at a second rate. A system may include a phase plane correlation calculator configured to determine a first motion vector estimate. The system may furth... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8054381 | Apparatus and method for frame rate up conversion An apparatus for frame rate up conversion comprises a motion-compensated frame rate converter, a primitive frame rate converter and a determination circuit. The determination circuit designates either the motion-compensated frame rate converter or the primitive fram... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8009231 | System and method of transmission and reception of progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display Systems and methods of coding progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display are provided. Some systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems and methods. Film material may be encoded as video mate... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7978266 | Ticker processing in video sequences An improved motion compensated interpolation of images in video sequences, in particular, for use in up-conversion processing. In order to achieve a smooth object motion in the interpolated image sequence, separate image areas are processed differently if an image c... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7876380 | System and method of transmission and reception of progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display Systems and methods of coding progressive content with isolated fields for conversion to interlaced display are provided. Some systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems and methods. Film material may be encoded as video mate... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7830450 | Frame synchronization method and device utilizing frame buffer A frame synchronization method includes: temporarily storing input data of at least one source frame in a frame buffer according to an input time sequence; generating an output time sequence according to the input time sequence and a delay time; generating output da... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7548276 | Frame rate conversion device, image display apparatus, and method of converting frame rate The present invention provides a technique relating to a frame rate conversion which enables display of an image of extended definition by smoothening the movement of the image. Therefore, the invention fixes the direction of interpolation using information on a fir... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7508449 | Film mode judder elimination circuit and method We describe and claim a film mode judder elimination circuit and method. A film mode detector detects a film mode in a video signal. A judder eliminator eliminates judder by dynamically transitioning from one field rate, e.g., 60 Hz, to another field rate, e.g., 48 ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7453519 | Method and apparatus for converting images at a given frame or field rate to second and third frame or field rates while maintaining system synchronism This imaging device includes an imaging element, a field rate conversion processing section, and a frame rate conversion processing section. The imaging element converts an image of a photoelectric subject photographically, and outputs a picture image signal which c... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7430015 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, picture data storage medium and computer program In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally contin... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7425990 | Motion correction device and method To realize a motion compensation device capable of more appropriately compensating the movement of a video signal subjected to double-speed conversion. A motion vector between an image of a current field in a double-speed-converted video signal and an image of a ref... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7411622 | Video signal processor The video signal processor of the present invention comprises a CCD for storing an inputted image by converting it into an electric charge through photoelectrical conversion to be stored by each field and then outputting the stored electric charge by each field; a s... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405766 | Method and apparatus for per-pixel motion adaptive de-interlacing of interlaced video fields A method for determining a value for a missing target pixel in an interlaced video field during a de-interlacing process includes providing at least one lookup table that correlates motion data to at least one of a plurality of de-interlacing methods, generating mot... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7391468 | Telecine conversion detection for progressive scan playback A moving average filter with a weighting factor calculates a continuously programmable threshold to determine whether fields could be considered identical or not. This decision is used to detect the cadence of a TELECINE encoded video signal. This moving average fil... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391476 | Method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a field A method and device for interpolating a pixel of an interline of a first field in a sequence of interlaced fields includes selecting at least one first pixel and one second pixel from scan lines of the first field adjacent the interline, and a third pixel from a sec... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375764 | Method and system for VFC memory management A method for managing vertical format converter line memories includes writing a number of first input video lines into the VFC line memories, writing an additional video line into the VFC line memories, and reading respective pixels of the first input video lines a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369179 | Automated inverse telecine conversion The present invention is generally directed to automated methods and systems for converting image streams having a first frame rate to a second frame rate without the need for user intervention. Embodiments of the present invention obviate the effects of processing ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365795 | Apparatus and method for adaptively de-interlacing image frame An apparatus for adaptive de-interlace of a frame comprises a line-segment difference-value calculating module, a motion-vector calculating module, an intra-block calculating module, a trigger-value producing module, and an image processing module. The line-segment ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365776 | Image pickup device The present invention provides an imaging apparatus for converting a 24p imaging signal generated with a frame frequency of 24 Hz according to a progressive scanning system into a 60i signal with a field frequency of 60 Hz by 2:3 pull-down processing a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362374 | Video interlacing using object motion estimation One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each segment are determined though object motion estimation. Interpolated ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362947 | Device, method, and system for video editing, and computer readable recording medium having video editing program recorded thereon A variety of special effect processing is performed on video frames retrieved from a disk device 30 in effect processing stages ES1, ES2, and so on. A work memory 112B is always interposed between processing at one stage and processing at... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349475 | Motion vector detection method and apparatus A motion vector detection method includes extracting a first block from the m-th picture, extracting second blocks having a large correlation with respect to the first block from a (m+n)-th picture ((m+n)>m-th), detecting first motion vectors between the first and s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336317 | Frame rate conversion device, overtaking prediction method for use in the same, display control device and video receiving display device An overtaking prediction method of, when input and output of data to and from a common memory are being performed with an input frame frequency and an output frame frequency made different from each other, predicting a frame in which overtaking occurs between the in... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333545 | Digital video decoding, buffering and frame-rate converting method and apparatus A decoder decodes full frame MPEG-2 video by a single method that applies regardless of buffer memory and frame rate conversion considerations. A display control module handles frame rate and field sequence in response to host configuration, trick play command signa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327397 | Image processing with pixel interpolation The present invention provides an image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof which shifts positions of each detected pixel in image signals generated by performing double-speed conversion, wherein a difference value in pixel signal level between a detect... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327329 | Dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel overdrive in an LCD panel based display In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by performing the following operations. A video vertical refresh rate of an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324157 | Repeat field detecting apparatus, video progressive conversion reproducing apparatus, repeat field detecting method, program, and recording medium Using an index indicating the amount of motion and noise in the video image calculated on the basis of the discrepancy pixel numbers of image two fields ago and the present image, the reliability of detection result is obtained and utilized, so as to improve the rep... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321371 | Data conversion device The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321396 | Deinterlacing apparatus and method A deinterlacing apparatus and method thereof include a motion compensation unit implementing motion-compensated temporal interpolation for each of estimated motion vectors with reference to a previous field and a next field, which are respectively ahead of and behin... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319491 | Method and apparatus for processing motion information A method for processing motion information in an input interlace-scanned pixel signal is disclosed. The motion information processing method includes the steps of detecting motion information of a target pixel based on difference information of a pixel signal at the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315331 | Method and device for converting video signals A method for the motion-vector-based conversion of a first video signal which contains a first image sequence at a first frequency to a second video signal which contains a second image sequence at a second frequency, where at least some of the images of the second ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310118 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus has a hold-type display panel composed of a matrix of pixels each holding an electric signal for a predetermined period. In the image display apparatus, an intermediate value detector provides an intermediate value signal from adjacent two... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310117 | Video signal format secondary-conversion method, time code signal transmission method, and time code transmitting apparatus When a time code signal corresponding to an image signal, to which a format conversion changing the number of frames per second is executed, is transmitted, information indicating a frame position where image data is changed through the format conversion in the imag... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305173 | Decoding device and decoding method Disclosed is a decoding apparatus for performing decoding processing in keeping with multi-view broadcast. The decoding apparatus includes a picture stream data storage unit (31) for allocating a storage area for each picture stream data and storing the stora... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304685 | Device and method for modifying video image of display apparatus A device and method for modifying a video image of a display apparatus method, for efficiently modifying a size and aspect ratio of a video image, is disclosed. The device includes an on-screen display (OSD) generator providing an on-screen display (OSD) on a displa... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295173 | Image display method An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of brightness of the subfield images, and displaying the arranged subfield ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295245 | Method and apparatus for converting frame rate using time shifting and motion compensation A method of and an apparatus for converting a frame rate using time shifting and motion compensation. The frame rate converting method includes calculating an average motion vector magnitude between every two adjacent frames among a predetermined number of frames in... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283172 | Method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium A method for converting video information from an incoming format to an outgoing format using a process free from one or more intermediary files. The method includes receiving video information in a first format and receiving a desired output media format based upon... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280155 | Method and system for converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video Processing video signals may comprise converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video by simultaneously performing: color edge detection on a first and second field; temporal filtering on the second field and third field; and 3:2 pull down detecting ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274402 | Method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided pixel interpolation In a method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided interpolation of a pixel in an intermediate image lying temporally or spatially between first and second images, motion vectors are assigned to the pixel to be interpolated, one pixel in each image being assigned to ... | 09/25/2007 |
